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Progressions in clinical application of magnetic resonance imaging in myopathy
XU Ting  GUO Yingkun  XU Huayan  CAI Xiaotang 

Cite this article as: XU T, GUO Y K, XU H Y, et al. Progressions in clinical application of magnetic resonance imaging in myopathy[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2023, 14(7): 192-196, 202. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2023.07.035.


[Abstract] MRI has the advantages of high soft tissue resolution, non-invasive, great reproducibility, visualizing changes in muscle volume and tissue characteristics, which can be used as the main method for diagnosis and following-up of muscle disease progression. Several previous studies have shown that multimodal MRI can provide multiple imaging biomarkers for the diagnosis, dynamic evaluation of efficacy, prognosis and prediction of muscle diseases. Meanwhile, with the development of new magnetic resonance image technology, quantitative evaluation methods of tissue characteristics such as muscle fat replacement and edema have been gradually applied in clinical practice. According to the types of muscle weakness, muscle diseases can be divided into six types. Therefore, this paper mainly reviews the research progress of the application of MRI in the tissue characterization and differential diagnosis of different muscle diseases based on the characteristics of the six classification modes of muscle diseases, so as to provide image support for clinical diagnosis and treatment.
[Keywords] myopathy；muscular dystrophy；congenital myopathy；muscle weakness；magnetic resonance imaging

XU Ting1   GUO Yingkun1   XU Huayan1*   CAI Xiaotang2  

1 Department of Radiology, West China Second Hospital, Sichuan University, Key Laboratory of Obstetric & Gynecologic and Pediatric Diseases and Birth Defect of Ministry of Education, Chengdu 610041, China

2 Department of Pediatric Neurology, West China Second Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China

Corresponding author: Xu HY, E-mail: xuhuayan89@sina.com

Conflicts of interest   None.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81901712); Key Research and Development Projects of Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Plan (No. 2021YFS0175).
Received  2022-06-27
Accepted  2023-06-28
DOI: 10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2023.07.035
Cite this article as: XU T, GUO Y K, XU H Y, et al. Progressions in clinical application of magnetic resonance imaging in myopathy[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2023, 14(7): 192-196, 202. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2023.07.035.

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